Lightning AI vs Theta EdgeCloud

What's good about each

Lightning AI

Billed by the second, interruptible machines 50-80% off
Studios move between its own cloud, AWS, GCP, Lambda and Nebius
Owned H100, B200 and GB300 fleet in US datacenters
Bring your own AWS or GCP account and spend cloud credits

Theta EdgeCloud

Datacenter H200, V100 and T4 machines, 1-4 GPUs
Consumer cards from a community fleet, priced per operator
Sharable persistent volumes that survive a stop and restart
Multi-node GPU clusters for distributed training
Inference APIs, dedicated model serving and Jupyter notebooks on the same account

Price comparison

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service	Lightning AI	Theta EdgeCloud	Difference
Block storage	$10.00 /mo 100 GB (Drive) · First 10 GB free	-- Not listed
Egress	Not publicly listed	-- Not listed

Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

GPUs

Lightning AI offers 8 GPU models, while Theta EdgeCloud offers 21. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Lightning AI	Theta EdgeCloud	Difference
H200 4 configs · 3 configs	$4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	$3.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	18% cheaper on Theta EdgeCloud
T4 2 configs · 2 configs	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand	64% cheaper on Theta EdgeCloud
H100 4 configs	$5.45 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lightning AI only
B200 1 config	$9.86 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lightning AI only
RTX PRO 6000 4 configs	$4.63 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lightning AI only
A100 8 configs	$1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lightning AI only
RTX 3090 1 config	--	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
V100 2 configs	--	$0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5060 Ti 1 config	--	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 3060 2 configs	--	$0.07 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only

All 8 GPUs on Lightning AI All 21 GPUs on Theta EdgeCloud

Lightning AI bills on-demand; Theta EdgeCloud bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Thunder Compute

RTX A6000 from $0.35, A100 from $1.09, per GPU per hour

Billed per minute, no commitment, no minimums

One click into VS Code or Cursor, no SSH setup

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Lightning AI	Theta EdgeCloud
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Python Notebooks

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	Lightning AI	Theta EdgeCloud
SOC 2	Type II, AWS and GCP clouds only	--
HIPAA	AWS and GCP clouds only	--
GDPR	Yes	--

Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.

Company details

Fact	Lightning AI	Theta EdgeCloud
Founded	2019	2024
Headquarters	USA	USA
Locations	--	--
Example customers	Nvidia, Cursor, Cisco, Runway, Supercell, Stability AI, Black Forest Labs	KAIST, NTU Singapore, Houston Rockets
Website	lightning.ai	www.thetaedgecloud.com

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Our data for Lightning AI was last updated on Oct. 28, 2026, and for Theta EdgeCloud on Oct. 28, 2026.